Our Final Video

Here is out completed video, I hope you all enjoy it. Thanks to Mr. Earl we have now got our video ready and the issues have been resolved. As I stated before there were some script changes in order to add more drama to the scene. Overall I think the result turned out well, I feel we could have done better if it wasn't for technology getting in the way of us earlier however I feel the shots turned out just as well as I planned them to. I am slightly disapointed that there aren't any titles within the whole movie because we simply did not have time and we were too busy making sure everything in the video was ready. The "Landscape" scene was shot just outside our school, this was done in order to save time and aviod us travelling far distances. For more information about the reasons for the places amongst other information regarding the Mise-en-scene we used look at some of my earlier blogs where I go into more detail. The music was Katie's choice, I was suprised by how well it was done and I'm ultimately very happy with it as I feel it created a very creepy and disturbing yet also intrigueing atmosphere to the audience. The transitions from the scens as you can see are 'fade out and fade in', this was done to add drama to the scene and make it seem more serious. I was adamant that these were the right transitions to use as I have seen in movie trailers and short films that this is commonly done to add drama, the most notable trailer I have seen that cuts to black regularly is 'Hancock' to add drama to what is being shown. I have looked at some other people's work in my class and I thought they were all very good; in particular Kelly Senior and Louise Browbank who I think used an incredibley good choice of location for the interrogation scene and actually used a place which I was thinking of shooting the scene earlier but cancelled because Katie would not be able to travel there so frequently. Some very good camera work was used in there project as well, a similar shot in which one characters face turns is very similar to our shot in which Barry (NUMBER 2) looks up to me (NUMBER 6). It took us 3 days in total to shoot these scenes and involved me and Barry wearing the same clothes each day in order to avoid continuity issues. As you can tell from an earlier blog of mine there was a '180 degree' continuity issue however this was resolved after we flipped the shot the opposite way. The whole atmosphere that we planned to create was supposed to be disturbing, confusing and creepy. I think we did this very well thanks to the music in particular. If i were to critisize the video I would say that the fight scene in which me as NUMBER 6 is punching Barry as NUMBER 2 did not turn out well, this was because I obviously could not literally punch Barry so I had to try and pretend, the end result I think does look fake and it is disapointing however I did not want Barry to get hurt so I did not punch him which I have found is very difficult to make look realistic but overall it is relativity realistic and by all means isn't dreadful. In order to save time there were a lot of shots that did not involve any edits, we chose this to suit time ranges when we came back to the editing and in order to add realism to the shot and make it more dramatic. I think the long takes were made very well and were a very good and positive feature of our video.

Annoying Technology!

It has come to light recently that technology has become one of my most complicated and hated foes. We seem to have rendered our video into a different file size which ultimately has made our video look very small when its played. Hopefully this can be resolved soon so that we can continue to complete our project in the right format and get it uploaded onto here so everyone can see. It shouldn't take long however I am unsure about the full scale of the problem but maybe, hopefully, possibly it can be completed soon. Fingers crossed.

Random Pictures

Here are some images that have been taken from our project, the first was meant to be an introduction to our project as a video however I could not say the lines properly so it ended up being a simple screenshot. The second image is taken directly from the interrogation scene when I am telling Barry that I need information. Katie was adamant to include these and came up with the designs almost entirely on her own, I was sceptical at the beginning but she convinced me and now I am very pleased she did as I think the pictures, in particular the second one are very well designed and are done well.

Received our Landscape Shots

Our landscape shots have now been given to us, so far I've done the majority of the editing on the landscape with some contribution from Barry whereas Katie has done the vast majority of the editing for the interrogation scene on her own with some contribution from me. It's been very good I think, there is still some editing to do but hopefully we can complete that on Friday; there was at one point an issue which sir picked up on as we broke what's known as a "180 degree rule" however we have solved this issue by flipping the camera angle so that it is in the right place.

Editing Starts Today

Katie has brought in her personal laptop today which has a different editing software to the schools, this will hopefully help us finish editing our video quicker as originally we would only have 3 hours to complete it.We can also help eachother within our free periods. I have just been told that our landscape shots are on a hardrive which Mr. Earl should put on the Media server soon.

Nostalgia Critic

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic

This is a link to the Nostalgia Critic, his name is Doug Walker and he uses a persona called the Nostalgia Critic who is a man that predominantly reviews films that are considered terrible like The Room among others. You will see on this link a load of other links which show the video, the links follow to the video however be wary that the Transformers, Kickassia and Suburban Knight videos do not link to the Nostalgia Critic as they are different persona's, also anything that says "Angry Video Game Nerd" or "AVGN" are also not film reviews. If you look on the website you can see that there are also "vs" videos, these are always my personal favourite episodes because he compares a old film and its remake to decide which is better, these old and new film reviews consist of "Batman vs Dark Knight" and "Lord of the Rings vs Lord of the Rings Animated". There are also "Top 11" videos which you may find interesting. I recommend you try and find a film you have seen as these tend to be the funniest. In case your wondering my favourite episode is "Batman and Robin" which is a film I watched as a little kid and hated even then for the exact reasons he points out.  Also be wary because there are a lot of jokes which happen frequently which you may not understand so if Caspar appears for no reason in the middle of the review, don't blame me. I have posted this because I think he uses great analysis of detail, especially at the end of his reviews when he sums up it all up, it is also very very funny and keeps you entertained throughout so I hope to incorporate certain aspects of this into my Exam for media to hopefully gain a good overall grade.

We Have Our Media Files Now

we have just been given our media files of our scene 2 shoot which are rendered in the right files, unfortunately we do not have our scene 1 files yet thanks to idiotic technology, however we will edit our scene 2 and our 'making of' video for now and then edit scene 1 latwer once we have our files for it.